Treatment of neonatal hypoglycemia with continuous intravenous glucose infusion.

The treatment of neonatal hypoglycemia by constant infusion of glucose at the rate of 8 mg/kg/minute was studied in 22 hypoglycemic neonates. In 18 neonates glucose levels rose above the hypoglycemic range within ten minutes of infusion and in three, within 30 to 50 minutes of infusion. The remaining neonate had hyperinsulinemia and responded only to diazoxide. Constant glucose infusion was found to be useful therapeutically for neonatal hypoglycemia.